Nnamdi Kanu’s Prolonged Detention Is Politically Risky For Nigeria
Nnamdi Kanu’s Prolonged Detention Is Politically Risky For Nigeria, Says IPOB Leader’s Lawyer, Ejimakor
Ejimakor said Kanu’s continued detention is illegal and politically risky to the South-East region and Nigeria in general.
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, special counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has asked President Bola Tinubu to be wary of people advising him to keep the IPOB leader in detention over alleged terrorism charges.
Ejimakor said Kanu’s continued detention is illegal and politically risky to the South-East region and Nigeria in general.
The lawyer said there is malicious fallacy by fringe government elements that Kanu’s continued detention furthers national security, noting that such perception is myopic, as any reasonable and sincere observer will see the opposite as the reality is that insecurity actually surged in the South-East following Kanu’s rendition from Kenya in 2021.
Ejimakor said, “Let it be clear that my public crusade against the continued detention and trial of Kanu is driven by the standing judicial pronouncements and legal principles against his rendition, detention and trial.
“A lot of folks are probably unaware that there is a subsisting Federal High Court judgment that declared his rendition and detention unconstitutional and two international tribunal pronouncements in the same regard.
“There is also this malicious fallacy by fringe government elements that his continued detention furthers national security.
“That’s so myopic, because any reasonable and sincere observer will see the opposite when you take stock of the reality that insecurity actually surged in the Southeast following Kanu’s rendition in 2021.
“To be sure, any notion of national security is incomplete without a concomitant regional security in the Southeast.
“Thus, President Tinubu should be wary of anybody that advises him to persist in this infamous detention and trial of Nnamdi Kanu. It is as illegal as it is also politically risky.
“The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu constitutes a significant burden on national security & its prolongation is agitating Ndigbo in profound proportions.
“It has also become politically risky to the government of the day.”
